Burnt Shadows
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press
Published:27th Sep '12
Should be back in stock very soon
Burnt Shadows is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.
Text in Arabic. 29 August 1945: Nagasaki: Hiroko Tanaka, twenty-one and in love with Konrad Weiss, the man she is about to marry, steps out onto her veranda, minutes before a nuclear explosion shatters her world and everything in it. Al-Thelal Al-Mohtariqa is an epic narrative of disasters evaded and confronted, loyalties offered and repaid, and loves rewarded and betrayed.
Completely authentic, complex, breath-stopping -- Emma Thompson Achingly moving The Independent, UK Intensely charged with emotion and beauty ... Has such a sad story, ever been told so beautifully? A formidable arching tale about loss and foreignness Financial Times, UK A sweeping narrative with a breath-taking climax The Guardian, UK
ISBN: 9789992142585
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 388g
480 pages